Re: [LinuxBIOS] Re: Linuxbios is always 421bytes larger than allowed

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, yhlu wrote:
> eric line in reset16.lds
> diff -r freebios_lnxi/src/cpu/x86/16bit/reset16.lds
> ../freebios2/src/cpu/x86/16bit/reset16.lds
> 8,9c8
> <       _bogus = ASSERT(_start >= 0xffff0000, "_start to low please
> decrease ROM_IMAGE_SIZE");
> <       _ROMTOP = 0xfffffff0;
> >   _ROMTOP = (_start >= 0xffff0000) ? 0xfffffff0 : 0xfffffff8;
>
> So i suggest we put the line in reset16.lds and dont accept the line
> in ldscript.lb

at best this is a temporary fix. Putting computations into the ldscript is 
going to cause us trouble later.

ron